Giada De Laurentiis Mixes Cooking with Fashion

The celeb chef serves up recipes, mommy tips and beauty secrets at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week: Fall 2014

From the LifeMinute team

February 7th, 2014

Celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis found time between starring on Food Network's Giada at Home and being a mom to make an appearance at BCBGMAXAZRIA Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week: Fall 2014. The cooking queen (decked out in BCBG, of course) dished out her current favorite recipes, beauty tips, mommy advice and more.

For Giada, life is all about combining the things you love, as she expressed, "I always said, you can look glamorous and be comfortable and cook, all at once. I want to feel good everyday, no matter what I'm doing."

To start off her morning, Giada shies away from sugar and goes for oatmeal with olive oil and a little bit of salt. When it comes to meals for the rest of the day, Giada's right-now recipe of choice is Lemon Spaghetti. "It's lemon zest, lemon juice, Parmesan cheese, olive oil and a little bit of garlic -- that's it," says Giada.

Giada's five year-old daughter Jade, on the other hand, is all about raisins, cranberries and nuts, so Giada always has those on hand, along with a little crayon set for impromptu drawing sessions. "That's all it's about, is finding ways to keep the kids happy," says the proud mommy.

As for Giada's morning beauty fix, it includes a face dunk in a sink of ice water. "What it does for your skin is it makes it nice and soft and takes any puffiness away," she says.

Giada also loves a bold lip, confiding, "Red lipstick is sort of my little thing right now. The red color takes everyone's attention to your lips and not anywhere else on your face."